Creationist argument about DNA and information

You answered more than one question and posted more than one link in your post.

Prediction: Daniel will reject your entire well-researched response as "elephant hurling" and then Gish gallop along to another insistence someone post a bumper-sticker length summary of the entire "Scientific theory of evolution" which he wouldn't (hasn't yet) even recognize much less understand.
 
Is this science?

LINK
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet

Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). In fact, it would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the sun.

- See more at: https://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-real-ninth-planet-49523#.dpuf

So, Daniel, is this science or not?
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One more thing to point out that some may have missed. Daniel's argument is based on authority. This is common in theology arguments, where who said it means a great deal. But it's misplaced here. It only works if we take scientific knowledge to be of the same type - an argument from authority.

That's why the quote mining is a go-to device. It's fueled by the notion that what one scientist says should sway me. That I should be devastated if my ideas conflict with whatever a noted scientist said.

The entire method is a mistake on his part. And the answers he gets bear this out. Instead of battling back with counter-quotes, we offer up logical reasoning - from our own heads. I don't think Daniel is permitted this, and so fails to see the power of it. But worse, fails to see how impotent an argument from authority is in this venue, where ideas are meant to be understood instead of merely parroted.

I'm all for disagreement, but I want to hear the reasoning behind it, not "scripture" - even if that "scripture" is drawn from scientific sources. Because, in the end, we have scientists we admire, but who are not holy men, and science isn't harmed by reworking it. We want to be wrong in order to get closer to right.
 
You fall at the first hurdle. I am a physicist and I do not claim that "all of reality can be described and predicted by the laws of physics" if by the laws of physics you mean those theories and laws that we have formulated as of today.


You’re right there. Not what I meant to say. Brain fart I guess. Quite obviously there is piles of stuff that isn’t yet described / predicted. I’ve said exactly that myself numerous times. Physics would end today if that was the case.

…but interest is waning, precipitously. Work to do…and stufffffffffffffffffffffffff. Daniel will, I’m sure, keep you entertained.
 
As evidenced by the content of your posts.


For instance...?

Not really, the Kreb's cycle, or some earlier version of it, refers to a process for the formation of amino acids that subsequently leads to the formation of proteins that acted as a pre-cursor form of RNA. It was there before we were, or to place it in a concept that you can more easily understand, it was "God's recipe". You asked , I delivered, and it's not theory, it's concrete reality.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22340/

"It is most likely that the citric acid cycle was assembled from preexisting reaction pathways. As noted earlier, many of the intermediates formed in the citric acid cycle are used in biosynthetic pathways to generate amino acids and porphyrins. Thus, compounds such as pyruvate, α-ketoglutarate, and oxaloacetate were likely present early in evolution for biosynthetic purposes. The oxidative decarboxylation of these α-ketoacids is quite favorable thermodynamically. The elegant modular structures of the pyruvate and α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complexes reveal how three reactions (decarboxylation, oxidation, and thioester formation) can be linked to harness the free energy associated with decarboxylation to drive the synthesis of both acyl CoA derivatives and NADH. These reactions almost certainly formed the core of processes that preceded the citric acid cycle evolutionarily. Interestingly, α-ketoglutarate can be directly converted into oxaloacetate by transamination of the respective amino acids by aspartate aminotransferase, another key biosynthetic enzyme. Thus, cycles comprising smaller numbers of intermediates could have existed before the present form evolved to harvest the electrons from pyruvate or other compounds more efficiently."


#1. Did you actually think this nonsense would get past me??..."Not really, the Kreb's cycle, or some earlier version of it, refers to a process for the formation of amino acids that subsequently leads to the formation of proteins that acted as a pre-cursor form of RNA.

Massive Begging The Question Fallacy. The Krebs Cycle/Citric Acid Cycle/Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle is used by organisms to create ENERGY.... Oxidative Metabolism!! Heard of it?? :rolleyes:

It contains 8 ENZYMES "Functional Proteins" from Jump Street. You're postulating this cycle as a mechanism to produce pre-cursors of Amino Acids?? :eye-poppi **Where'd you get the Essential Alpha Amino Acids that make up "Functional Proteins" (ENZYMES) in the Cycle in the First Place !!! ** My word

And pray tell :jaw-dropp, Proteins......as a Precursor Form of RNA?? Great Googly Moogly....Incoherent Absurdity, Hard STOP!
Show us how proteins (AA's) can be a Precursor to RNA (Ribose, Nucleo-bases, Actvated Phosphates)?? rotflol This is tantamount to showing how an Orangutan is a Precursor to Non-Locality!!!


#2. "It is most likely that the citric acid cycle". It's also "most likely' that Invisible Fire-Breathing Dragons caused the Burn Marks on my Garage Wall.

You're having a problem discerning between "Science" and "Just So" Stories (Fairytales), here...

"Science": Method --- "The Scientific Method.

"Just So" Stories: Method --- Imagination.

Show a 30-mer "Functional Protein" wicker itself together spontaneously "Naturally" from it's building blocks outside a living cell/organism....?



Daniel: 1. Functional DNA/RNA/Proteins NEVER spontaneously form "naturally", outside already existing cells, from Sugars, Bases, Phosphates, and Aminos, respectively.
It's Physically and Chemically IMPOSSIBLE.
That's just the Hardware!

Jodie: You need to go back to school, or at least keep up with the latest research. This experiment was done about 75-80 years ago.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do53am.html


You post the Miller-Urey Experiment?? :jaw-dropp Incoherent Red Herring Fallacy.

I said Functional DNA/RNA and...Proteins. Miller Urey produced NONE of these!!! :rolleyes:


1. Show all 20 Essential Alpha Amino Acids produced in this experiment...?

2. Please confirm the Fairytale atmosphere they used: Methane, Ammonia, Water vapor, Hydrogen....?

3. They used only 'SELECT' wavelengths of UV Light (Good Thing, because UV Light destroys AA's (and Nucleobases) )

4. They FILTERED OUT (using "Catch Basins"), natural process eh :rolleyes: ?...the products. They made: 85% carcinogenic resin, that also included cyanides and carbon monoxide, and 2% amino acids. Mostly 2 amino acids...The amino acids will bond with the tar and others long before they bond to each other (good thing they filtered, eh?).

ps. If you post that Jeffrey Bada nonsense from 2008 and I'll Jack that Yard also :thumbsup:


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26876/

"From our knowledge of present-day organisms and the molecules they contain, it seems likely that the development of the directly autocatalytic mechanisms fundamental to living systems began with the evolution of families of molecules that could catalyze their own replication. With time, a family of cooperating RNA catalysts probably developed the ability to direct synthesis of polypeptides. DNA is likely to have been a late addition: as the accumulation of additional protein catalysts allowed more efficient and complex cells to evolve, the DNA double helix replaced RNA as a more stable molecule for storing the increased amounts of genetic information required by such cells."


"it seems likely that the development of the directly..."

See Above: Invisible Fire-Breathing Dragons/Science/"Just So" Stories ect


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6360/

" As we have seen in this chapter, there is no lack of alternative, and sometimes contradictory, hypotheses. We have emphasized the importance that viruses could have played in the story since their role is usually ignored or underestimated. In any case, viral replication systems should not be only considered as simple model system, giving possible clue to more complex cellular ones, but as mechanisms interesting to study on their own, as witnesses of critical aspects of early life evolution. The availability of many more replication protein sequences from viruses of the three domains of life and new methods to analyze viral protein phylogenies will possibly help to critically test some of the hypotheses we propose. Their comparison with other replication systems will certainly be productive at the end, if done with an evolutionary oriented mind."


Viruses are Obligate Parasites; i.e., they need Life Existing FIRST, so as to EXIST; Ergo...Begging The Question Fallacy.


The key phrase in your quote is " presently known" and your citation is about 20 years old.


Well show some NOW that REFUTE IT!!! sheesh. Or you gonna 'Stage 5 Cling' to this Argument to the Future Fallacy?

And how long ago is an Incoherent Straw Man (Fallacy). We're not on the 'cutting edge' here attempting to elucidate the Optimal Intake of B12 for Cancer Prevention.

There hasn't been much on the Laws of Thermodynamics since the late 1800's...does that Ipso Facto make them Old Hat?? :boggled:


That's a stupid question. The formation of amino acids isn't comparable to paper and glue turning into a manual.


1. My specific query in this particular case here was focused on DNA (Manual/Blue Print). Maybe if you actually read the question you wouldn't attempt to clumsily label it out of ignorance??

And

2. The formation of all the 20 Essential Alpha AA's are only part of the argument (which you would have known if you've been following along here :cool: )


I believe based on what you have posted so far that my attempt to dumb it down probably wasn't dumb enough.


"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." -- Socrates

pssst, we already knew ;)


Projection on your part.


Another Ipse Dixit Baseless 'bald' Assertion on yours


Neither is the bible.


I never said it was.



If you discount what I've posted thus far based on that diatribe of a post then it equally applies to your perspective. The " Life is but a Dream" argument dressed up in quantum mechanics, although I don't disagree with it in principle, isn't reliant on some form of prior knowledge or plan. That is simply how we perceive it, which is why we are having this debate.


So you won't be joining in over there then, eh? Shocking!



With that in mind, the process of evolution is a perceptual issue.


"evolution", what's that?? Please post the Scientific Theory of evolution....?


regards
 
You’re right there. Not what I meant to say. Brain fart I guess. Quite obviously there is piles of stuff that isn’t yet described / predicted. I’ve said exactly that myself numerous times. Physics would end today if that was the case.

…but interest is waning, precipitously. Work to do…and stufffffffffffffffffffffffff. Daniel will, I’m sure, keep you entertained.
Enjoy your break. Always best to take time out when the first premise of your argument doesn't quite work out.
 
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Well Sir, because Experiment/TESTING....Hypothesis TESTING: IS SCIENCE !!!!!! That's why I'm 'hung up' on it.

Well there's a difference between "Predictions" and "Scientific Predictions".

"Scientific Predictions" are the Consequent of The Antecedent --- "Independent Variable" Manipulation. THIS...THEN THAT motif.

"Formalized hypotheses contain two variables. One is "independent" and the other is "dependent." The independent variable is the one you, the "scientist" control and the dependent variable is the one that you observe and/or measure the results.
The ultimate value of a formalized hypothesis is it forces us to think about what results we should look for in an experiment.
Notice there are two parts to a formalized hypothesis: the “if” portion contains the testable proposed relationship and the “then” portion is the prediction of expected results from an experiment. An acceptable hypothesis contains both aspects, not just the prediction portion.
http://www.csub.edu/~ddodenhoff/Bio100/Bio100sp04/formattingahypothesis.htm


"Predictions" without an Antecedent are: Jeanne Dixon/Edgar Cayce/Nostradamus/Carnival TENT motifs. :eye-poppi

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What would really help me, and I suspect many other readers, is if you, Daniel, could provide some specific examples of what you consider to be science. Examples which pass muster in terms of Hypothesis TESTING, "Scientific Predictions", and Formalized hypotheses which contain two variables (one "independent", the other is "dependent").

For example, which of the following, if any (these are shorthands, please ask if any is unclear):

* Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
* Mendel's work on peas
* Maxwell's equations
* the Ideal Gas Law
* Darwin's work on Galapagos finches
* research into 'targeted drug therapies for cancer (e.g. Trastuzumab (Herceptin) for some breast cancers)
* the research into Minimata disease (which led to the discovery that it is caused by mercury)
* discovery of DNA's relationship to genes

Thank you in advance.

@other ISF members reading this: please feel free to suggest other, specific, examples of (what you consider to be) science, ones which may help shed light on what, in detail, constitutes Danielscience. In a positive respect (i.e. not what is NOT Danielscience).
 
Well we know that the Universe had a Beginning see (1LOT/2LOT); Therefore, The CREATOR must be Outside of and not a Product of it.
Wrong, Daniel:
We know that you have a continued delusion about the first and second laws of thermodynamics magically meaning that the universe had a beginning.
We know that you have a delusion that the universe having a beginning means a mythical being created it.
We know that you deny that there are hundreds of equally "valid" creation myths :jaw-dropp!
We know that someone parroting creationist myths and even lies by quote mining is not being honest. Lies by quote mining; some actual lies; cherry picking; ignorance; unsupported assertions; and begging the question seems all we have from Daniel so far needs to include:
  1. 1 March 2016 Daniel: A strawman argument about bicycles and irreducible complexity.
  2. 4 March 2016 Daniel: Learn what the science and the scientific method actually are before making comments about them!
  3. 8 March 2016 Daniel: An implied lie by highlighting the "specified complexity" phrase in a 1973 source as if it were IDs later and discredited "specified complexity".
  4. 8 March 2016 Daniel: Citing a proposer of a mechanism for abiogenesis (Leslie Orgel) is not good for a creationist!
  5. 11 March 2016 Daniel: William Provine is a historian complaining about the language used about natural selection and the corruption of it by creationists'
  6. 11 March 2016 Daniel: An irrelevant "without merit" Provine quote from a 2005 conference presentation!
  7. 17 March 2016 Daniel: Parroting a lie: a cartoon caption from Martin Rees, Anthropic Universe, New Scientist (6 Aug 1987), 46 :jaw-dropp!
  8. 18 March 2016 Daniel: It is idiotic to ignore the decisions made by animators writing an animation showing a few of the processes in a cell!
  9. 18 March 2016 Daniel: A lie about FSC which is Functional Sequence Complexity in biology (nothing to do with intelligent design).
  10. 18 March 2016 Daniel: Yockey quote: non-biologist, paper from 1977! that suggests a "747 from a junkyard argument" with the use of "simple combinatorial analysis"!
  11. 21 March 2016 Daniel: Skell (creationist and chemist) lies about evolution ("invoking Darwin") not being used by biologists (evolutionary developmental biology has been around since before Darwin :eye-poppi!).
  12. 21 March 2016 Daniel: Spetner (physicist and a creationist) repeats the creationist myth that mutations cause the loss of information (point mutations are neutral and a part of the mechanism for creating new information).
  13. 21 March 2016 Daniel: The creationist lie that "antibiotic resistance is not evolving".
  14. 23 March 2016 Daniel: How do the pyramids display the biological concept of Functional Sequence Complexity, e.g. used in analyzing proteins?
  15. 23 March 2016 Daniel: How do the pyramids display the pseudoscience of Demksi's debunked concept of Specified Complexity?
  16. 23 March 2016 Daniel: Can you list any actual examples of calculations from Demksi's debunked concept of Specified Complexity?
  17. 23 March 2016 Daniel: A null hypothesis is not a random fantasy that you assume to be true :eye-poppi!
  18. 24 March 2016 Daniel: An opinion article from Paul Davis is his opinion - citing it is an argument from authority!
  19. 24 March 2016 Daniel: The ignorant assertion that a scientist Martin Rees is not a scientist!
  20. 24 March 2016 Daniel: Why would Martin Rees being an atheist (he is agnostic not an atheist) make him a "Hostile Witness" in a thread about science?
  21. 24 March 2016 Daniel: Why would anyone being an atheist prevent them from being a scientist?
 
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Daniel : Why do you and other creationists ignore the actual information in DNA

No, but it contains Boatloads of Information...
30 March 2016 Daniel: Why do you and other creationists ignore the actual information in DNA as if it did not exist :jaw-dropp!
Repeating what we know (DNA contains information) again and again and again is redundant to say the least.
 
Daniel: A creationist lie that "Functional DNA/RNA/Proteins spontaneously formed ...

A. "Functional" DNA/RNA/Proteins NEVER spontaneously form "naturally", outside already existing cells, from Sugars, Bases, Phosphates, and Aminos, respectively.
Argument from ignorance still, Daniel . This is a creationist lie about abiogenesis.
30 March 2016 Daniel: It is a creationist lie that "Functional DNA/RNA/Proteins spontaneously formed "naturally", outside already existing cells, from Sugars, Bases, Phosphates, and Aminos, respectively".
There are different theories of abiogenesis. None of them start with modern functioning DNA/RNA/Proteins outside of cells :jaw-dropp! They start with protocells inside of which chemical reactions happen between precursors of DNA/RNA/proteins.
 
B. How Did Stupid Atoms Write Their Own Software....? In other words, show how Ink/Paper/Glue Molecules can Author Technical Instruction Manuals/Blueprints...?
Repeating nonsense again and again is not a question, Daniel.
DNA is not a blueprint. A blueprint is a very bad analogy for DNA. DNA is better described as a book of blueprints most of which are random scribbles (junk DNA), none of which is a complete living being. Some of the blueprints are for time bombs (Endogenous retrovirus) but messed up enough to prevent them from exploding. The small number of blueprints that can be read are for tools. Most of the tools are built and used as is in cells. Some of the tools are modified along the way (epigenetics).
There are no "Ink/Paper/Glue Molecules".
There are no "Technical Instruction Manuals/Blueprints".
Thus there can be no "Authoring".
 
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Daniel: A derail into 5 Young Earth Creationist delusions and lies

How do we explain such abysmally ignorant questions from creationists, Daniel? Easy: the ignorance and denial of young earth creationists who are willing to believe any delusions or even lies to support their fantasies and willingness to repeat them though trying to learn the truth :jaw-dropp!
30 March 2016 Daniel: A derail into 5 Young Earth Creationist delusions and lies.
A bit of a derail but this is the real world, Daniel:
  1. The existence of billions of fossils dated across billions of years means they were not formed in a mythical flood a few thousand years ago that lasted a years or so.
  2. A lie about BONES.
    We explain the existence of some cases of soft tissue found inside >65 million year old FOSSILS to them being preserved over periods of millions of years.
  3. Fossils take years to thousands of years depending on the environment.
  4. Like other canyons in the world!
    The Grand Canyon was formed by the uplift of the land while the Colorado River eroded the limestone and sandstone.
  5. It is basically a lie from Young Earth Creationists.
    Geology of the Grand Canyon area
    The next two periods of geologic history, the Ordovician and the Silurian, are missing from the Grand Canyon sequence.[25] Geologists do not know if sediments were deposited in these periods and were later removed by erosion or if they were never deposited in the first place.[31] Either way, this break in the geologic history of the area spans about 65 million years. A type of unconformity called a disconformity was formed.[32] Disconformities show erosional features such as valleys, hills and cliffs that are later covered by younger sediments.
    It is 65 million years missing - not 160 million years.
ETA: The absolute absurdity of the Grand Canyon questions becomes obvious with:
30 March 2016 Daniel: If science cannot date anything then where did you get that "160 million years" of missing strata from?
Is it from the Bible or another holy book :p?
 
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How do we explain such abysmally ignorant questions from creationists, Daniel? Easy: the ignorance and denial of young earth creationists who are willing to believe any delusions or even lies to support their fantasies and willingness to repeat them though trying to learn the truth :jaw-dropp!
30 March 2016 Daniel: A derail into 5 Young Earth Creationist delusions and lies.
A bit of a derail but this is the real world, Daniel:
  1. The existence of billions of fossils dated across billions of years means they were not formed in a mythical flood a few thousand years ago that lasted a years or so.
  2. A lie about BONES.
    We explain the existence of some cases of soft tissue found inside >65 million year old FOSSILS to them being preserved over periods of millions of years.
  3. Fossils take years to thousands of years depending on the environment.
  4. Like other canyons in the world!
    The Grand Canyon was formed by the uplift of the land while the Colorado River eroded the limestone and sandstone.
  5. It is basically a lie from Young Earth Creationists.
    Geology of the Grand Canyon area

    It is 65 million years missing - not 160 million years.
ETA: The absolute absurdity of the Grand Canyon questions becomes obvious with:
30 March 2016 Daniel: If science cannot date anything then where did you get that "160 million years" of missing strata from?
Is it from the Bible or another holy book :p?

:popcorn2
 
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It is 65 million years missing - not 160 million years.
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Im confoozed--I thought he was referring to the following(from http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/101_evidences_for_a_young_age_of_the_Earth_and_the_universe

Claim:
Inter-tonguing of adjacent strata that are supposedly separated by millions of years also eliminates many millions of years of supposed geologic time. The case of the "missing" geologic timeimg; Mississippian and Cambrian strata interbedding: 200 million years hiatus in question, CRSQ 23(4):160–167.

Response:
The basic idea behind this claim is that strata from the Mississippian and the Cambrian lie "next" to each other in the Grand Canyon such that there is no obvious disruption. This would "prove" that there was no time gap between what geologists have found to be about a 200 million year time period.
The biggest issue with this is that no one else has found this interbedding or lateral connection of layers. The only people reporting it are a single group of five creationist researchers who visited in 1986.[34] Instead of using standard geologic procedures to identify which layers corresponded to which period, they used a Park Service sign, some hand lenses, and coloration. Conventionally, scientists use an array of properties and instruments that examine the qualities of the rock, fossils in the rock, and chemical composition to assign periods to a layer. The creationist researchers did none of this. Most importantly, no-one else has been able to see this effect, or replicate the findings, in the nearly 30 years since this was originally published.[35]


I need to know, I hike the dang Canyon every year, and I need to know how many million years I'm crossing--is it 65 million, 160 million, or 200 million? :confused:
 
Daniel: Argument from ignorance of special relativity and its experimental basis

Light Years is not a measure of "Time", it's one of "Distance".

For you to be able to ascertain the "Time" component, you MUST know the "One-Way" Speed of Light.
Wrong Daniel. What you really do is learn about physics and that the experimental basis of special relativity includes One-Way Tests of Light-Speed Isotropy.
30 March 2016 Daniel: Argument from ignorance of special relativity and its experimental basis
More generally, SR includes the postulate that the speed of light is constant in a vacuum according to inertial observers and it is extremely well tested.

The measurement that the speed of light is constant in a vacuum makes a light year into both a distance and a time. For example Alpha Centauri is 4.37 ly away and so any light we see from it is from 4.37 years in the past, the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light-years from Earth and so the light from it is 2.5 million years old, etc.
 
I need to know, I hike the dang Canyon every year, and I need to know how many million years I'm crossing--is it 65 million, 160 million, or 200 million? :confused:
Who knows - certainly not Daniel who seems to be parroting some creationist "facts" :jaw-dropp! Another creationist fantasy to add to the mix - AIG have a web page with "at least 155 million years".

And Top 5 Creationist Claims About Grand Canyon: #1 The Great Unconformity Was Caused By Noah’s Flood, Part 1
In Grand Canyon, one time gap stands out from all others: the Great Unconformity. The Great Unconformity is the combination of rock layers separated by gulfs of time that stagger the mind. In Blacktail Canyon (river mile 120), for example, one can put one’s hand on a thin line separating two rock units—the lower, the Vishnu Schist, dated at 1750 million years of age (Ma), the higher, the Tapeats Sandstone, dated at 525 Ma. The gap between them is 1,225 Ma, and since the Earth is 4,540 Ma, that single small gap—that gravel-fringed line one can cover with one’s finger—represents 27% of Earth’s entire history.
Top 5 Creationist Claims About Grand Canyon: #1 The Great Unconformity Was Caused By Noah’s Flood, Part 2
Top 5 Creationist Claims About Grand Canyon: #1 The Great Unconformity Was Caused By Noah’s Flood, Part 3
 
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Wrong, Daniel:
We know that you have a continued delusion about the first and second laws of thermodynamics magically meaning that the universe had a beginning.
We know that you have a delusion that the universe having a beginning means a mythical being created it.
We know that you deny that there are hundreds of equally "valid" creation myths :jaw-dropp!
We know that someone parroting creationist myths and even lies by quote mining is not being honest. Lies by quote mining; some actual lies; cherry picking; ignorance; unsupported assertions; and begging the question seems all we have from Daniel so far needs to include:
  1. 1 March 2016 Daniel: A strawman argument about bicycles and irreducible complexity.
  2. 4 March 2016 Daniel: Learn what the science and the scientific method actually are before making comments about them!
  3. 8 March 2016 Daniel: An implied lie by highlighting the "specified complexity" phrase in a 1973 source as if it were IDs later and discredited "specified complexity".
  4. 8 March 2016 Daniel: Citing a proposer of a mechanism for abiogenesis (Leslie Orgel) is not good for a creationist!
  5. 11 March 2016 Daniel: William Provine is a historian complaining about the language used about natural selection and the corruption of it by creationists'
  6. 11 March 2016 Daniel: An irrelevant "without merit" Provine quote from a 2005 conference presentation!
  7. 17 March 2016 Daniel: Parroting a lie: a cartoon caption from Martin Rees, Anthropic Universe, New Scientist (6 Aug 1987), 46 :jaw-dropp!
  8. 18 March 2016 Daniel: It is idiotic to ignore the decisions made by animators writing an animation showing a few of the processes in a cell!
  9. 18 March 2016 Daniel: A lie about FSC which is Functional Sequence Complexity in biology (nothing to do with intelligent design).
  10. 18 March 2016 Daniel: Yockey quote: non-biologist, paper from 1977! that suggests a "747 from a junkyard argument" with the use of "simple combinatorial analysis"!
  11. 21 March 2016 Daniel: Skell (creationist and chemist) lies about evolution ("invoking Darwin") not being used by biologists (evolutionary developmental biology has been around since before Darwin :eye-poppi!).
  12. 21 March 2016 Daniel: Spetner (physicist and a creationist) repeats the creationist myth that mutations cause the loss of information (point mutations are neutral and a part of the mechanism for creating new information).
  13. 21 March 2016 Daniel: The creationist lie that "antibiotic resistance is not evolving".
  14. 23 March 2016 Daniel: How do the pyramids display the biological concept of Functional Sequence Complexity, e.g. used in analyzing proteins?
  15. 23 March 2016 Daniel: How do the pyramids display the pseudoscience of Demksi's debunked concept of Specified Complexity?
  16. 23 March 2016 Daniel: Can you list any actual examples of calculations from Demksi's debunked concept of Specified Complexity?
  17. 23 March 2016 Daniel: A null hypothesis is not a random fantasy that you assume to be true :eye-poppi!
  18. 24 March 2016 Daniel: An opinion article from Paul Davis is his opinion - citing it is an argument from authority!
  19. 24 March 2016 Daniel: The ignorant assertion that a scientist Martin Rees is not a scientist!
  20. 24 March 2016 Daniel: Why would Martin Rees being an atheist (he is agnostic not an atheist) make him a "Hostile Witness" in a thread about science?
  21. 24 March 2016 Daniel: Why would anyone being an atheist prevent them from being a scientist?

Great work, Reality Check. How about adding Danielscience's incredulous response when it was pointed out that abiogenesis and evolution are not the same thing, nor even linked?
 
For those following the discussion, one of the things Daniel seems to find surprising is the existence of ribozymes.
These are extensively found in cells and the most important known ribozyme is the ribosome itself.
One of the leads towards the RNA world hypothesis was the discovery of the fact that the machinery needed to translate RNA into proteins in fact depends wholly on RNA for it's function. In fact, it is possible to strip ribosomes of their proteins and still have them perform their function. This discovery removed the chicken/egg problem for protein synthesis.
 

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